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chess has had engines 100x better than magnus carlsen for years and it's not dead. people who have fun giving these competitions will continue having fun, while people who don't wi…

yep, this level of censorship is a bit much in my opinion. the models should at least be able to create fiction reasonably. Can't wait for things like llama / alpaca to become more…

yeah, it's being very slow for me too! I don't have monitoring on it as such, but there was an outage just today ( https://status.openai.com/ ) so it's probably still unstable or s…

i'm not employed by google, nor have i ever been. GSoC is google paying people to work on open-source stuff, with little direct relation to their profits.

I was a student in a no-name college with no real chance of landing an internship at the big tech companies, given my cv had neither the prestige of a good college name nor many im…

it depends where you take it! plus the initial prompt changes everyday. tomorrow will be a different setting with different characters.

Hi HN! I worked on this small fun thing over the weekend. Everyone starts from the same point every day. things diverge from there. Your choices define where the story goes.

GSoC basically changed my entire career. I'm glad that Google keeps this running, especially given that they got rid of other cool competitions like Codejam. Hopefully, they can co…

The way that I think about this is that anyone who's good at skill X has put in the hours. Putting in the hours is not a sufficient condition for "getting good" or "being successfu…

As a person who loves playing chess but will never be as good as an IM (let alone GMs or Magnus or engines), I've had to internalize this. It's a good feeling.

oh dang probably it was the hacker news hug. can you try again?

How is this the worst part lmao?

If you think people good at things (like writing) get good at those things without producing an insane amount of low quality content, you need to update your model of the world.

Losing my google account has to be a worst nightmare scenario. I've started disentangling slowly, starting with mail, but Google Photos is just so convenient.

Also, what this does is really separates the wheat from the chaff. If the company can't tell me the salary or the job, it's not a good fit anyways. Interestingly, what this means i…

I never really understood what incentive a government had to recognize bitcoin as legal tender. There are no real benefits over something like UPI in terms of user UX. It takes thi…

I have a public notes repo [0] in which I only write for myself, with no real expectation that anyone will ever read it. I have however gotten feedback in the form of cold emails t…

I feel like Hugo / Jekyll (or equivalent) + GitHub Pages (or equivalent) is much much easier to set up. Is the resiliency really needed for your personal blog? Github Pages (which …

Chess variants are very interesting. It'd be very nice if someone could build an online version of this actually.

>Does it really matter whose child it is? Umm what? Do you not see the inherent breakage of trust if your wife is having sex with someone else in a monogamous relationship and then…

Interesting, what do you mean by this? I would have expected that people who exercise more would have lower probability of being overweight?

How is the platform being trash (also arguable) related to employee's moral compromises?